YMP Team News

With a target date of June 1, 2016, the Youth Media Project staff (with an assistant from the JFP staff) is working hard to pull the YMP offices together. Perched on the 13th floor of Capitol Towers in downtown Jackson, the YMP office is an open floor plan that used to house the capital city's Associated Press offices.

​With views of the Standard Life building, breakout rooms for interviews, podcasting, production work and more, the new YMP office promises to be a great headquarters for learning and creating this summer.

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Major Sponsors and Supporters of YMP

Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) is a leader in informational broadcasting. MPB has exhibited a commitment to educating and informing Mississippians. MPB has partnered with YMP to lend tech equipment and provide youth engagement and media specialists to train students.

E3, a project of Parents of Public Schools of Jackson (now Ask for More), supported YMP in summers 2016 and 2017 with stipends for students, and other resources.The Community Foundation of Greater Jackson (now The Community Foundation of Mississippi) is the​fiscal sponsor for E3.

Podastery Studios in downtown Jackson offers a network of locally produced podcasts. Beau York, founder of Podastery, has generously donated his time to train YMP students in podcasting skills and allowed Youth Media Project students to borrow professional podcasting equipment to learn ​production skills.

Dialogue Jackson, formerly Jackson 2000 Inc., is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to fostering understanding and building harmony between people of different races, ethnicities and backgrounds. The group became YMP's fiscal sponsor in 2017 and hosts youth dialogues for teens..

Choice Printing in downtown Jackson is an in-kind sponsor of YMP offering YMP copying and printing services from its Capitol Towers location.